| Un caso d'incoscienza | Emidio Greco | drama film | Italy |
| Waterwalker | Bill Mason | documentary film | Canada |
| Windy City | Armyan Bernstein | drama film | United States |
| Without the Right to Fail | Yevgeniya Zhigulenko | adventure film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Yamaha Fish Stall | Zhang Liang | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| About the Strangeness of Love | Teodor Vulfovich | comedy film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible | Valentin Gorlov, Vladimir Alenikov | fantasy film | Soviet Union |
| Ake Hasselgard Story | Jonas Sima | documentary film | Sweden |
| Behind the Blue Nights | Olgerd Vorontsov | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Cujo | Lewis Teague | drama film, horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Daniel | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Muffie Meyer, Mirra Bank, Ellen Horde | drama film | United States |
| Flight During Atlantic Ocean | Raimondas Vabalas | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Forgive Me, Alyosha | Iskra Babich | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Here is your front | Eduard Gavrilov | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Himmatwala | K. Raghavendra Rao | action comedy film | India |
| Il disertore | Giuliana Berlinguer | drama film, war film | Italy |
| Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Spike Lee | comedy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Joysticks | Greydon Clark | comedy film | United States |
| Jára Cimrman Lying | Ladislav Smoljak | comedy film, biographical film | Czechoslovakia |
| Krull | Peter Yates | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, United States, Italy |
| Kukaracha | Siko Dolidze, Keti Dolidze | drama film, detective film | Georgian SSR |
| Lessons for tomorrow | — | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Lovis, rybka! | — | puppet film | Soviet Union |
| Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants | Mykhailo Illienko | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Moon Shine Bowling | André Forcier | drama film | Canada |
| Nešto između | Srđan Karanović | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| One and Eight | Zhang Junzhao | war film | People's Republic of China |
| Parahyba Mulher Macho | Tizuka Yamasaki | historical fiction, drama film, historical film, biographical film | Brazil |
| Psycho II | Richard Franklin | mystery film, horror film, thriller film | United States |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | post-apocalyptic film, fantasy film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, musical film | Canada, United States |
| Romantic Comedy | Arthur Hiller | romantic comedy | United States |
| Scene | Anatoliy Granik | — | Soviet Union |
| Skazka o zvezdnom malchike | Leonid Nechayev | drama film, cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| Skullduggery | Ota Richter | horror film | Canada |
| Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | Lamont Johnson | adventure film, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Start Liquidation | Boris Grigoryev | action film, war film, crime film | Soviet Union |
| Strada Pia | Georg Brintrup | documentary film | Germany, Italy |
| Strange Invaders | Michael Laughlin | action film, horror film, alien invasion, science fiction film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Table for Five | Robert Lieberman | drama film | United States |
| The Adventurer | Kaljo Kiisk | drama film, road movie | Estonia |
| The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | drama film | Japan |
| The Deal | Fernando Ayala | drama film | Argentina |
| The Doctor's Pupil | Boris Rytsarev | cinematic fairy tale | Soviet Union |
| The Keep | — | suspense film, mystery film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, war film, supernatural horror film | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Kid Who Couldn't Miss | Paul Cowan | docudrama, documentary film | Canada |
| The Mill | Ahmed Rachedi | drama film | Algeria |
| The Night the Bridge Fell Down | Georg Fenady | action film, disaster film | United States |